It was Tommy's day to pump the organ for Miss Phœbe, and his bare toes proudly spurned the dust of the road.
Down went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night; and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and passed by.
Nothing is more futile and more self-defeating than the bitterness of spurned love, the vengeful feeling that someone else has "come between" oneself and a beloved.
